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American Humor A subtreasury of American Humor E. B. White and Katharine S. White Editors - New York Coward- McCann, Inc. 1941 - 814 p.
Table of Contents -- Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Christopher Kaplan / Leonard Q. Ross -- The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine / Frank R. Stockton -- Gentleman Prefer Blondes / Anita Loos -- George F. Babbitt starts the day / Sinclair Lewis -- Lady's room / John Mosher -- Two letters from a Rookie to his girl / Edward Streeter -- Glory in the daytime / Dorothy Parker -- Boggains in the Bronx / Arthur Kober -- Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun / Heywood Broun -- His grandfather's old ram / Mark Twain -- Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner -- Fables for our time / James Thurber -- Fables in slang / George Ade -- Fable of the iron dogs / Don Marquis -- Ferry-tail from Keeng Mitas for Nize Baby / Milt Gross -- Fantastic fables / Ambrose Bierce -- The Parable of the family which dwelt apart / E.B. White -- Confessions of a gallomaniac / Frank Moore Colby -- An Affix for birds / St. Clair McKelway -- An Invitation to a party / Frederic S. Cozzens -- A Very dangerous invitation / Max Adeler -- A Ride with Ralph / Francis Steegmuller -- A Watch that wanted cleaning / James T. Fields -- It's a wise parent / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- Large coffee / Ring Lardner -- Doucement, doucement / Donald Moffat -- The Most horrible battle ever recorded in poetry or prose / Washington Irving -- The Latest improvements in artillery / Orpheus C. Kerr -- Sumthin in the pastoral line / James Russell Lowell -- The Great presidential excursion / Petroleum V. Nasby -- The Hunting of the cow / Mark Twain -- Mr. Dooley on the power of music / Finley Peter Dunne -- The Governor / James M. Cain -- A Weekend at Lady Astor's / Frank Sullivan -- Excerpts from the tribune primer / Eugene Field -- Christmas afternoon -- Happy childhood tales -- The Blue sleeve garter -- More songs for meller / Robert C. Benchley -- Odd's bodkins / Ring Lardner -- A Garland of ibids / Frank Sullivan -- The Whiskey rebellion / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White -- Selections from the diary of our own Samuel Pepys / Franklin P. Adams.
A collection of humorous pieces based mainly on family life in contemporary America.
American wit and humor
817 Ame 14
American Humor A subtreasury of American Humor E. B. White and Katharine S. White Editors - New York Coward- McCann, Inc. 1941 - 814 p.
Table of Contents -- Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Christopher Kaplan / Leonard Q. Ross -- The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine / Frank R. Stockton -- Gentleman Prefer Blondes / Anita Loos -- George F. Babbitt starts the day / Sinclair Lewis -- Lady's room / John Mosher -- Two letters from a Rookie to his girl / Edward Streeter -- Glory in the daytime / Dorothy Parker -- Boggains in the Bronx / Arthur Kober -- Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun / Heywood Broun -- His grandfather's old ram / Mark Twain -- Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner -- Fables for our time / James Thurber -- Fables in slang / George Ade -- Fable of the iron dogs / Don Marquis -- Ferry-tail from Keeng Mitas for Nize Baby / Milt Gross -- Fantastic fables / Ambrose Bierce -- The Parable of the family which dwelt apart / E.B. White -- Confessions of a gallomaniac / Frank Moore Colby -- An Affix for birds / St. Clair McKelway -- An Invitation to a party / Frederic S. Cozzens -- A Very dangerous invitation / Max Adeler -- A Ride with Ralph / Francis Steegmuller -- A Watch that wanted cleaning / James T. Fields -- It's a wise parent / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- Large coffee / Ring Lardner -- Doucement, doucement / Donald Moffat -- The Most horrible battle ever recorded in poetry or prose / Washington Irving -- The Latest improvements in artillery / Orpheus C. Kerr -- Sumthin in the pastoral line / James Russell Lowell -- The Great presidential excursion / Petroleum V. Nasby -- The Hunting of the cow / Mark Twain -- Mr. Dooley on the power of music / Finley Peter Dunne -- The Governor / James M. Cain -- A Weekend at Lady Astor's / Frank Sullivan -- Excerpts from the tribune primer / Eugene Field -- Christmas afternoon -- Happy childhood tales -- The Blue sleeve garter -- More songs for meller / Robert C. Benchley -- Odd's bodkins / Ring Lardner -- A Garland of ibids / Frank Sullivan -- The Whiskey rebellion / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White -- Selections from the diary of our own Samuel Pepys / Franklin P. Adams.
A collection of humorous pieces based mainly on family life in contemporary America.
American wit and humor
817 Ame 14